Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little known is Chicago's art colony. It is near the north side, centering around Rush Street. About 20 years ago, wealthy citizens began moving out of the old brick houses, and artists and writers began moving in. Best known arty rendezvous is the Dill Pickle Club where bushy-haired Dr. Ben L. Reitman. onetime lover of Emma Goldman, author of The Second Oldest Profession, lectures nightly on sex. The favorite artists' restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table...
...billion-dollar lesson which we hinterland Yahoos have learned since 1914 is to look twice at any international gold brick which the Yazoos of New York and the Yapoos of Washington offer us. We bought one in 1917 and another in 1928 and hardly have we begun to pay for them than another is presented with the same glib prospectus...
...gilt (or guilt) of this latest cancellationist gold brick bubbles green beneath the acid of these considerations...
...Depression her Venetian palace is closed, but Princess Jane gave a large dinner for the Princes at the Grand Hotel. The Prince of Wales did not bother to dress. He wore gray flannels, brown suede shoes. After dinner Princess Jane ferried her guests out to the ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace at the Lido for a dance...
...great many Denverites own their own homes. Few live in apartments. A city ordinance has long forbidden frame construction; the houses are all brick, stone or stucco. Politically, the city runs itself. City and county governments are one. The State legislature cannot enact laws affecting the city of Denver. In view of this independence, Denverites hold it fitting that their Civic Centre is now dominated, not by the oldtime gingerbread Capitol, but by the coronet City & County Building, one of the notable public buildings of the country...